The Nationals try to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Cardinals today.

Davey Johnson said last night he planned to make some lineup changes for today's series finale against the Cardinals. So what are those changes? Well, Tyler Moore is at first base instead of Adam LaRoche, and Jhonatan Solano is catching instead of Kurt Suzuki.

Not exactly a major shakeup, but Johnson said that had more to do with today's matchup, with Jaime Garcia on the mound for St. Louis. He didn't want to bench Danny Espinosa and Anthony Rendon and deny them a chance to bat against a left-hander. LaRoche and Suzuki will likely be back in the lineup tomorrow against the Reds.

Stephen Strasburg gets the start, looking to snap his string of losses at three. The Nationals would love to get a quality, and long outing out of their ace, who has been plagued by high pitch counts more than he would prefer.

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Why is this happening? But last year, the team always came on strong late and you always thought they could come back. This year- no fight in them at all. Even in losing seasons they did not fold like this. Can we just get one game where the other team collapses? We can take a gift at this point. This is so depressing. Argggggh.

How many options does Storen have left? And, how about we make Strasburg a relief pitcher, bring him in in the fourth inning of each turn through the rotation. He usually doesn't show up until then, and can't go more than six (rarely seven) anyway, so nothing lost.

He's trying to go lefty-right match-up, but. Strange time for it. Anyone remember that Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns takes out Darryl Strawberry for Homer because match-ups? I always think of that when they get too hung up on the hitter's handed-ness.

If they don't come back…this is one of those losses I'd be pretty unhappy about. Poor hitting is one thing, but shaky defense and boneheaded plays on the bases are hard to deal with. Getting beat happens, but a team shouldn't ever beat itself.

The bullpen has collapsed in crucial situations. Like when leading. Nobody except Bryce can come up with the clutch hit. I can see a few guys slumping but everybody?? I think what you have here is just old fashioned choking? Any thoughts?

Just got home — they just ph'd for Moore, already??? and for ALR??? what happened to the shake up? It was all crap as I stated last night. Still sticking with .150 Espi, I see. Davey is a good club house guy, good for esprit decorps but on field manager, nope, not so good. The Poor nats

I tend to think getting into the psychology is pointless – not something we can diagnose without knowing the players. The problem is that they are not playing good baseball, and the solution is that they start playing good baseball.

Nats fall to a very pedestrian 10-11. it all could have been avoided were it not for the Over Tinkering by Rizzo over the winter. Rizzo/Davey: Tweedle Dee/Tweedle/DumFolks, this is not going to get better; more able to get worse, much worse

haha Well, with Charlie Slowes repeating his stats, one is apt to fall asleep.What? did I just hear Ray actually state that "Haren has improved this club." Please, Ray, don't pee down my back and tell me its raining.

Guys. Morse is also not hitting very well after getting injured. Burnett is injured. Edwin Jackson is not doing very well, with no quality starts as yet. John Lannan got blown up in his last start and is – also – injured. Those guys wouldn't be saviors.

This team is looking bad at almost every level. Even Davey pressing hit & runs and amazingly subbing in ALR for TMo and allowing him to go get his 11th straight out. I expect this to get even worse against the reds. Depressing…

Somebody needs to call davey out and stop kissing arse. (Media) kutchner was lobbing softballs and acting all star struck with Rizzo interview on 106.7. Davey just is stubborn and slow. He makes terrible decisions. I've watched him since early 90s and I just can't stand him. Still I'm a huge Nats fan, but I reserve the right to dislike the manager and dumb decisions.